Introduction to Travel Medicine
Code
11216
Academic unit
Nova Medical School | Faculdade de Ciências Médicas
Department
TRA - Population Health
Credits
3
Teacher in charge
Prof. Doutor João Luis Baptista
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
Learning outcomes of the curricular unit
To understand the concept of travel medicine and the global and individual implications of the international traveller health
To understand the role of health professionals in the travellers protection
To identify potential risks associated with international travel
To recognize the aspects of prevention as a way of reducing risks to the health of the traveller
To learn how to individualize the recommendations according to the trip and the traveller
Prerequisites
Subject matter
Syllabus
- Globalization, international travel, health and safety
- Prepare the traveller: understand and communicate the risk
- Travel medicine and zoonosis - "one world, one health"
- Malaria
- Genetics and Communicable Diseases
- Other vector-borne diseases
- Risks associated with the environment and their prevention
- Vaccines and vaccination in the international traveller
- Special travellers (children, the elderly and pregnant women)
- Other special travellers
- Emerging and re-emerging diseases and travel medicine
- The traveller health kit
- Post travel assessment
- Available tools and resources in travel medicine
Bibliography
WHO International Travel and Health 2012 e 2015 Updates
CDC Health Information for International Travel 2016 -
Vídeos da OMS desenvolvidos em algumas temáticas das aulas e a introduzir de modo específico.
http://www.actamedicaportuguesa.com/normas/AMP-NormasPublicacao-web.pdf
Outros
Teaching method
Teaching methologies (including evaluation)
Theoretical and practical classes, discussion of clinical cases, individual and group work.
Evaluation method
The evaluation consists of an individual work: review paper on a travel medicine topic according to the publication guidelines for revision articles of Acta Médica Portuguesa.